The Sun. — London, England, 1864-07-22 00:00:00

P ERIAL PARLIAMENT HO USE OF LORDS.—Last Evening. 'the LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. THIRD READINGS. Nl° following bills were read a third time and passed : IV , ;st Grinst ?ad—Cuckfield and Hayward's Heath Junc tion Railwa;7—North Devon and Somersetehire Railway -Worcester e.nd Dean Forest and Monmouth Railway— Glaegow (City) Union Railway—Metropolitan, Notting hill, and Brompton Extension—Launceston, Bodmin, and Wadebridge Junction Railway—Liverpool, Central Station —Alford and Mablethorp Railway, Tamar Kit Hill and Callington Railway—and l)sayton Junction Railway. THE SPANISH SLAVE TRADE. Lord BROUGHAM reverted to the discussion which took place on this subject the other evening for the purpose of correcting a misapprehension which existed as to the observations that fell from him. In censuring the Spanish governors of Cuba for taking bribes he specially excepted General Dolce, who, to his great honour. refused to become a party in any degree to the carrying on of the abominable traffic. All he could say was that he only wished the other Spanish colonial g overnors were h a lf a s good as General Dolce, because then an end would soon be put to the slave trade. METROPOLITAN RAILWAY.' LDrd REDESDALE moved that no petition, Praying to he heard against the Metropolitan Railway Bill, be received by the house unless received before Friday. The motion was a greed to. BUILIA.L REGISTRATION BILL. The report of amendments to this bill was brought up and receiN ed. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. - - _ Earl FORT ESCUE moved t he second reading of the W e i g hts and Measures (Metric System) Bill, which had come np with the sanction of the Commons, and the advan tages of which the noble earl dilated upon as being very considerable alike in a commercial and a scientific point of view._ The Marquis of SALISRURY opposed the bill, on the ground that it was an incomplete and unsatisfactory at tempt to substitute a French equivalent for the Imperial standard by the use of decimal points that would not be understood, and which could not touch the multifarious weights and measures that did not come under the denomi nation of Imperial. Belisvii.g that rho weaeure Would be utterly impracticable, he moved as an amendment that it be read a second time that day three months. The bill was also opposed by the Earl of DONOUGH MORE. The Duke of ARGYLL contended that the arguments relied upon by the opponents of the measure were incon clusive, and that so far from the introduction of the pro posed system being complicated and hard to understand it was marked by extreme simplicity as compared, for example, with the system of weights and measures existing in Scot. land, than which nothing could be more obscure or difficult of comprehension. The Earl of 1-IA.RROWBY also supported the bill, be cause it was required by a large proportion of the mercantile community, and its adoption would be permissive, not compulsory. Lord BROUGHAM was of opinion that the measure, if passed, sv , uld not only prove a great convenience to the commercial classes, but increase the spread of education by relieving the poor from the trouble of mastering an anti quated and complex system, thus wasting time that might more profitably be employed in the acquirement of other branches of knowledge. After a few words against the bill from the Earl of CAR raavoN, and a brief reply from Earl FORTESCUS, the house divided, and the bill was read a second time by 34 to 23. The Turnpike Acts Continuance, the Militia Pay, the Registration of Deeds (Ireland), the Justices Proceedings (Sussex), the Expiring Laws Continuance, the Highways Acts Amendment, the lonian States Acts of Parliament Repeal, and the Turnpike Trusts Arrangement Bills were read a second time ; as was also the Poisoned Flesh Prohi bition Bill, upon a division, by 31 to 18. The Sale of Gas (Scotland), the Naval Discipline, and the Local Government Piet (1858) Bills went through committee. The Mutual Surrender of Criminals (Prussia), tbeThaines Embankment and Metropolis Improvements Loans, the Isle of Man :arbour Act Amendment, and the Militia Ballots Suspension Bills were read a third time and passed. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—Last Evening, The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. Th 9 following bills were read a third time and passed :-- Central Railway— Chittenden's Disabilities Removal— E.latnes' Estate—Great Northern and Western (of Ire land) Railway (No. I)—Great Northern and Western (of Ire!and) Railway (No. 2) Bill—Hubberston Docks Bill— Irish North Western Raiiway—Lord Harris' (Horsham, Ail Souls College) Estate—and Millwall Canal, Wharfs, and Graving Docks. INTERFERENCE IN COLONIAL AFFAIRS. Mr A. MILLS gave notice that next session he would move an address to the Crown that British forces should not be allowed to interfere in colonial matters. ROYAL NAVAL AFFAIRS. Mr C. BERKELEY asked the Secretary to the Ad miralty, if he considers that the officers of long standing and high rank in the navy are satisfied with the recent distribution of pay, as lately gazetted, by which it appears that their juniors will receive more than themselves; and if he considers that the fact of officers receiving more on the retired lists than those who remain on the active lists will act beneficially in inducing officers to seek ser vice; and it, considering the anomalies which have arisen in the various rates of pay, half-pay, retired pay, and re served pay, her Majesty's Government would cause any , inquiry to be made either by Royal Commission or other wise. Lord C. PAGET said that he had heard no complaints on this subject from the officers of the royal navy, and there was no reluctance on the part of naval officers to enter into active service. Mr MILLS said he did not consider the explanation satlafactory, and that he would again draw the attention of the house to this subject. BRITISH AND FOREIGN STATE PAPERS. Mr H. SEYMOUR asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether a publication, called "The British and Foreign State Papers," issued an nually, and edited by the Librarian of the Foreign Office, was printed either wholly or in part at the public expense ; and, if so, whether such a selection might not be distributed to members at the ordinary price of parliamentary papers instead of being charged 30s a volume; and whether it might not be brought up to the present time. Mr LAYARD said that the State papers were printed at the expense of the public. He said that the foreign papers could be published fully if the house wished to incur the expense. It would be impossible to produce those foreign papers as rapidly as other State papers were produced. The Secretary of the Foreign Library, who was a gentleman of zeal and energy, published two volunles of these foreign papers annually, and wished to publish three annually. DISEASED MEAT. Mr CRAWFORD asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Alex. Stewart, who was con victed at the Central Criminal Court in December, 1863, of the offence of sending diseased meat from Scotland to Lon don for sale, and sentenced to pay a fine of f.,50, and imprisonment for the term of 12 calendar months, had been liberated trom gaol without payment of the fine ; and if so, that he would state the grounds on which Stewart was so liberated and the fine remitted; and, whether applic.tions were not now before the Secretary of State for the remission of punishments and penalties in other similar cases.—He observed that during the past year no less than 114,0001 b. of diseased meat and 76,0001 b, of putrid meat had been seized in the City of London. Sir G. GREY said that an application to the Home Office for a remission of the sentence was refused, and he was liberated only on the statement of the visiting justices o f Holloway Prison, that further imprisonment would affect his health. WALES RESERVOIRS. In reply to Mr FE&RAND, Sir G. GREY drew attention to the law on this subject which he sail did not, he believed, entitle justices of the peace to interfere in these matters. However, in certain comp an i es t h ere we re provisions that authorised justices of peace to interfere to co.npel the repair of embankments. RE VBSAL OF A WINE LICENCE TO WES TON' S RETRE AT. Sir G. GREY explained that there was no right of appeal except in the case when a licence had been already obtained, and tnat p art i es app l y i ng for licensee had a right to be heard befo re they were ref used: FOREIGN PASSPORTS. Mr LAYARD said that the Emperor of the French, with the greatest liberality, had removed all restrictions on British subjects travelling in Prance, and if they were asked to show a passport, it wa s merely to prove their nationality. He could speak from personal experience that British subjects were not exposed to any inconvenience in regard to this matter. The other countries who were not required to hav3 passports were Bavaria, Belgium, Den rauk, Italy, Prussia, Spain, a n d N orway. He recom inevded that Englishmen should carry p as sports to avoid any inconvenience. THE METROPOLITAN POOR RELIEF B ILL. Lord C, HAMILTON said that copies of this bill, which aq to be committed to - morrow, had not been supplied to w hon. members until yesterday afternoon. This was a most i m portant bill, and conterrea large powers on the Board of Works in d ea ling with property in the metropoli s . Mr GLAD`3TONE said that the copies had been distributed yesterday morning, when he and other mem bers received them. After some discussion, Mr. VILLIE R,S said that this bill had been considered upstairs for three years, and was mbdo in conformity with the unanimous recommendation of the committee who had duly investigated the subject. LORD PALMERSTON'S NOTICE FOR MONDAY EVENING. Mr HUNT desired to make an appeal to the noble lord at the head of the Government respecting his notice for the rescinding of the resolution relating to the educational in spectors' reports. The report of the select o mittee re ferred to an appendix which was not yet in t• hands of members, and that was one reason for not proceeding as yet with the motion of which the noble tad given no• tice. But there was the further reason, that it would be most objectionable and unusual, at the very end of the session, when probably there would not be half the mem bers present who had passed the resolution, if the Govern ment were to attempt the rescission of. the resolution. (Hear, hear.) He was not at all prepared to say that he was opposed to the motion of the noble lord upon its merits, but he wished as a matter of principle to protest against the endeavour to smuggle such a notice through the house. He thought it would be much more satisfactory if the question were allowed to stand over until next session, when it could be properly considered, than discuss it daring the last few days of the session, when, as was well known, the business of the house was under the control of the Govern ment. (Hear, hear.) TROOPS FOR JAPAN. Lord R. MONTAGU asked upon whose authority troops of the line and marines had been sent to Japan. Was it upon the authority of the Cabinet, or upon the authority of some subordinate officer ? If it was upon the authority of some subordinate, he wished to know what the noble lord proposed to do with the subordinate in question. He also wished to know if the noble lord was prepared to lay the despatch of General Browne upon. the table before the discussion appointed for to• morrow evening came on. MINISTERIAL REPLIES. Lord PALMERSTON—The noble lord the member for Huntingdonshire (Lord R,,Montagu) asks under what autho rity a force of Royal Marines has been sent to Japan. Sir, the force was sent in consequence of a decision of the Cabi• net, who thought it was desirable to increase our military defences at that station. With regard to the question of the hon. member for Northamptonshire (Mr. Hunt), I have to state I thought it my duty to avail myself of the earliest moment after the report of the committee was in the hands of members, to ask the house to do justice to my right hon. friend the member for Caine (Mr. Lowe), and the depart ment to which he belonged, and to rescind the resolution which it had passed. I apprehend, in all probability, there may be quite as large an attendance of members on Mon day next as when the resolution was passed. There were not 200 members present then, and I think there will be at least that number present on Monday. Under these cir cumstances I "Rnnot postpone h --o notice whack I have given. Lord HOTHAM regretted very much the decision which the noble lord had come to, and hoped he would reconsider it. He said that, considering the period of the session at which they had arrived, and the smallness of the attend ance which might be expected on Monday evening. There was this further objection to the course the noble viscount proposed to take. There were two parties to this question; there was the right hon. gentleman the member for Caine (Mr Lowe), who was there in his place, and would probably be there on Monday, and the noble lord the member for Stamford, who was not in his place, and who might not be there on Monday. Therefore he asked the noble lord not to come to a conclusion upon a point of form which might be erroneously thought to affect the facts of the case, and might give rise to some misapprehension. The subject then droppea, sad the motion for the ad journment of the house was withdrawn. THE INDIAN BUDGET. Sir C. WOOD made his annual statement of the finances of India. He began by observing that the favourable anti cipations he had made in past years had been confirmed, and the hopes he had held out had been more than realised. The result was that, after an equilibrium of revenue and expenditure in one year, there has been a considerable sur plus in three successive years, £8,313,000 of debt had been paid off, and there was a balance in the Treasury of upwards of £19,000,000. There had been a steady increase, he said, in all the items of revenue, the augmentation of the land revenue having resulted from the large quantity of land taken into cultivation. He went over the other sources of supply to the Indian Exchequer, explaining, as he pro cee.led, the nature of each and the modifications they had undergone, remarking that most of them were derived from internal taxati,,n, falling upon the people of India. He then adverted to the expenditure, to the increase in the pr ce of commodities and in the rate of wages. He entered very fully into the state of the cotton cultivation, showing that there had been a progressive increase in the produc tion and in the importation of East India cotton, and stated the measures taken to eheck its adulteration. He read statements of the augmentation of the exports of other articles of Indian produce—coffee, indigo, jute, woods, tea, and chincona bark. He gave details respecting the state of public works in India, where there was now an excessive demand and competition for labour; the railroads, tele graphs, &c.; and he then, after remarking that tranquillity prevailed within our own territories in India, traced the origin of the late operations against the fanatical tribes be yond the Punjab frontier, from the time of the Mahomedan schismatic, Syed Ahmed, to that of the Akhoond of Swat, their present head, and adverted to the quartet with the chief of Bo,,tan and his treatment of Mr Eden, indicating the inexpensive measures to be adopted to bring the chief to reason, by occupying the passes of his territory, and cutting off his communications and supplies. In conclusion, he re viewed some of the leading measures of the Indian local Government during the past year, and vindicated the policy and administration of the home authorities. He concluded by moving the first of a series of resolutions on the financial condition of the several Governments of British India, The resolutions presented the following result : TDe total net revenues of the several Presi- dencies tor the year ended the 30th of April, 1863 The total charges Surplus of Indian revenue Interest on debt £3,351,680 Charges defrayed in England 9,015,601 9,867,281 Surplus of Indian income X 1,527,346 Mr H. SEYMOUR considered the statement, on the whole, highly satisfactory; suggesting, however, the more ready sale of waste lands in India in lee-simple by the Government. Mr J. B. SMITH complained that the Indian Budget was not brought before the house at an earlier period of the session, and that it was not accompanied by the explana • tions of the Finance Minister in India. Ha complained likewise tha; so little attention was paid to opening out the internal navigation in that country. He, however, con gratulated the house upon the satisfactory character of the report given of the finances of India. Cursory observations upon the various topics touched upon in the statements of Sir C. Wood were made by Mr Kinnaird, Mr Vansittart, Mr Crawford, Mr Torrens, Mr Gregson, and other members, some of whom could not help animadverting upon the state of the house, and especially the vacant benches on the Opposition side, during this dis cussion. Sir C. WOOD made a general detailed reply to objec tions and inquiries. The resolutions were then agreed to. On the order for going into committee on the Consoli dated Fund (Appropriation) Bill, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER explained the financial changes which had affected the balanc e be. tween revenue and charges for the year, the result of which had reduced the surplus, calculated by him in his budget statement at £238,000, to £85,000. After some remarks by Sir H. Willoughby, Mr J. White, and Mr Walpole, upcn the subject of the surplus, Mr AYRTON ceded attention to 'he balance of power in Europe, for the maintenance of which the army supplies ere appropriated, He observed that Prussia, as an indepen dent kingdom, apart from the Germanic Confederation, had been guaranteed in the possession of a portion of Saxony by the Treaty of Vienna. He contended that Prussia had departed from that treaty by invading Schleswig and Den mark and had broken the peace of Europe, and, in the name of the people of England, he protested against this proceeding on her part, and insisted that we were not bound to adhere to the arrangements of the treaty of 1815 in respect to Saxony. Sir J. FERGUSSON remarked that if the doctrines now held were to be maintained, other treaties might be as easily set aside, Lord PALMERSTON sad he did not stand up to defend the conduct of Prussia; but he could not concur with Mr Ayrtoia in thinking that, because Prussia had made war upon Denmark, we were relieved from the engagements and obligations we had contracted, along with other Powers, under the Treaty of Vienna. The house tben went into committee upon the bill, the clauses of which were agreed to atter some discussion. On the order for the third reading of the Yaw Zealand (Guarantee of Loan) Bill, Mr W HALLEY called upon the Government to give an explicit answer to the question whether Governor Sir George Grey had not attributed the war in New Zealand to the machinations of the Roman Catholic priests, Mr HENNESSY moved to defer the third reading for a month. He cited testimonies favourable to the character of the Maories, and denounced the war, which, ho said, com promised the honour of the country, Mr CARDWELL reminded the house that the hostile natives occupied a very limited part of the colony, and he GovernorG wasr e t y o a p s u t t o d t o h w e n r a e a e l o o n r s i p g i i r n a o f the e d cy by al vs a amr a statementlthei thobject i n r i of y f o G E of the natives. Upon a division, the amendment was negatived by 75 to 32. The bill was then read the third time and passed. The house then went into committee upon the Fortifica tions (Provision for Expenses) Bill, when The biarquis of HARTINGTON made a short explana thr9 statement, in which he described the progress and con dition of the works. ord The c l auses of the bill were agreed to, after considerable di scussion. adjo The other Orders ee urned at halt ere P' "- past 3 o ' -^ecerled with, and the house clock. FECHTER AS CIALTDE MvLNOTTE I.—P; is ru moured, says a contemporary, that Mr Fechter intends tc• pronuce "The Lady o f Lyons, „ and that he is looking for a lady to play Pauliue to hie Claude Melnotte, Why not Mies Kate Terry? TER SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 22, 1864. will see his chance and take advantage of it, or whether Mr. Lincoln will deprive them both of their opportunity by allowing the laws of the State to take their course against himself personally,and pleading military necessity and the Indemnity Act as justifii cation of his act and a bar against the penalty. In this latter case no immediate decision will be ob tained. The whole matter will have to go before the Supreme Court. Long before it reaches which tribunal Mr. Lincoln will either be " Dictator" with enlarged power, or an obscure lawyer in Sangom.n County, Illinois—no longer of sufficient political importance to be worth the trouble of prosecuting. The supporters of Governor Seymour insist that he is in earnest; that he will, to the utmost extent of the means placed by the people at his disposal, resist the encroachment of the Federal power. They urge also that his previous moderation, caution, and forbearance are but so many proofs that he will act with dignity and determination when cir cumstances have provided him with so strong and unmistakable a case as that whioh General Dix, acting on Presidental authority, has so opportunely afforded. The appeal by the Governor of New York to the merchants, bankers, and other wealthy citizens, to advance, by wsy of loan to the State, the sums ne cessary to pay in gold the interest upon the debt held by Englishmen and other foreigners, has had but little effect. Not above a quarter of the neces sary funds has been thus proviued for, and the whole proposal has fallen to the ground, and been abandoned by the Chamber of Cemmerce, the body which first took tp the subject as a matter of public duty and promised to carry it to completion. It appears that sone portion of the principal has already been pair' off in greenbacks, and for that reaeon the Chamfer has decided that it is of no use to pay the interest of the remainder in gold—i. 6., the debtor havingdone partial injustice, it is better that he should continue to do injustice than that he should lay himself open to the accusation of incon sistency by suddenly becoming honest. Governor Seymour, however, may claim the merit of having seen the right Muse and dared to pursue it, and may leave to the Legislature the shame of a quasi repudiation, and to the mercantile community ot this great city such portion of the disgrace as is implied in its tacit acq'fescence in that which it knows to be dishonouraht, and the stigma of which it might have removed it it had been half as much in love with the public it-edit as with private moneymaking. The great Stateof Oaio has had even less shame than New York and it has repudiated the obliga- tion of paying .n gold a debt contracted in gold, without so muci as a remonstrance from any con• stituted anthority entitled to speak in its name. Yesterday week the auditor Secretary of State, and to - Genets! of Ohio, constituting the Board oArtFurnneydcommissioners, arrived in this city to pay the semi-annual interest of the Ohio public debt, due July 1, a debt amounting to about 13,000,009 dole, for the most part held in England and Ger many. They paid in greenbacks, and thus tender :o the foreign creditor a mere composition, at the then rate of gold, of 40c on the dollars, or 8s on the pound sterling. This may not be called either robbery or repudiation ; but it is marvellously like the one, and is certainly a very uinsiderable stride towards the other. At some future day, perhaps, New York and Ohio may be again in want of funds to carry out some project of internal improvement or public utility, and may issue proposals to the c , pitalists of Europe to advance them gold on such security as New York or Ohio can offer. But if, under the circumEtances, Englishmen and Germans do not button up their pockets they will deserve to lose their money, Lnd will merit as little sympathy as any bumkin at a fair who permits himself to be swindled by a ring dropper. THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA, (From the Times Correspondent.) NEW YORK, July 8. Kentucky has been declared in a stage of siege, and the habeas corpus has been suspended through- ont its whole extent. Mr• Lincoln has appointed a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer, but hear= tates to call for the 300,000 or 600,000 men so . . urgently needed, lest his electioneering prospects should thereby be clouded. Gold is up at a pre. mium of 171 yer cent., and is hourly advancing. Grant has been fairly checkmated at Petersburg, and has sat before it for 24 days uncertain what to do. Sherman has gone round the Kenesaw Moun tain, which he failed to capture, and approached a few miles nearer than before to the Chattacboochie and Atlanta, and Gen. Lee has invaded Maryland, threatens Pennsylvania, and scared all Washing ton, lest be should not be satisfied without captur ing Baltimore, and thence marching, all bat unop• posed, through Blandenburg into the Federal capi tal. Such is a short summary of the situation. Yet, strange to say, most of the Federal journals find great comfort in it, and those which more particu larly make it their business to support the Admini stration are rampant in their exultation that things look so bright for the loyal and so black for the rebel cause. The suspension of law and the habeas corpus in Kentucky is too small a matter for their conside- ration. The day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer will please the religions people and the " war Christians," and will answer exactly the same pur- pose as if it had been a day of thanksgiving. The postponement of the draught signifies nothing, inasmuch as recruiting goes vigorously on, and the old soldiers are re-enlisting for the bounty. The premium on gold looks bad, it is true; but then it is the work of foreign speculators and unpatriotic gamblers, who will all be brought to grief by and by, or as soon:as Mr. Fessendenn has leisure to look into the matter. Grant at Petersburg is in the very place where he ought to be, and is as certain to take Richmond, in an easily computable num- ber of days, as he was to take Vicksburg. Sherman is slow, but then he is sure, and is " bound" to take Atlanta sooner or later—a fact which is proved by the constant retreats of Johnston, who is evidently afraid to measure swords with so redoubtable an antagonist. As for the invasion of Maryland, it is a mere raid of 5,000 starving cavaliers at the most, who have gone for plunder, and will not get half as much as they expect, and who are certain to be cut off with their booty on their return homewards by the combined forces of Hunter and Sigel. Indeed, so little do these easy and happy observers of events think of the Shenandoah movement, that they ex- press their fear that Lee does not intend an inva. sion, and that he has not sent men enough on the expedition to make the capture of the whole posse —bag and baggage, arms, ammunition, and horses —a sufficient dangerous adventure for the Federal army to make a brag of. But all Americans are not so easily led astray as to believe the rosy explanations of such public in structors as these without judging of the facts for themselves. The business community has come to the conclusion that the garbled and contradictory reports of the state of Grant's and Sherman's armies—and more especially of the Confederate movement in Maryland—are not to be depended upon ; that it is more likely that Lee with 50,000 or 60,000 men intends to raise the siege of Rich mond and Petersburg by an attack upon Baltimore and Washington than that he has sent 5,000 men to break up the Baltimore and Ohio Rail way, destroy Federal stores and depots, impress men and horses, and provide the destitute people and garrison of Richmond with food. Tbey admit, without under. standing the various reports from the startled and terrified people of the Border, that whatever Gen. Lee may mean, his invasion is likely to prove a serious matter for the people of the North, and one that will tax the military genius of Gen. Grant to defeat or render innocuous, and that up to this time the balance of victory since the passage of theßapidan has been with the Confederates. It is these consider ations, combined with the knowledge that the new Secretary of the Treasury is printing off greenbacks at the rate of 2,000,000 per diem, for the payment of the arrears due to the army and navy, which nn• settle trade and commerce, and send up gold to a rate that reduces the value of the paper dollar to about ls. 6d. English money, instead of 4s. 2d., its normal worth in times of peace, prosperity, and specie payments. Nor are the failure of the summer campaign and the state of the nation,' finances the only causes of disquietude. To these, serious enough to try the philosophy of statesmen and the patience of the people, have to be added the danger of a collision between the State and Federal authorities in the chief city and State of the Union. The great causeof the people of New York agains General Dix has entered into a new phase. The general, remembering that in every civilised coun try where martial law has not been regularly de clared the civil law is paramount, surrendered to the warrant of the city judge, and appeared to an swer the complaint of the district attorney, that he had illegally, violently, and burglariously entered and retained possession for two days of the offices of the Nero York World and Journal of Commerce. To give him time to prepare his defence, the c,se was adjourned for a week, and will come on again to-morrow for further argument. Meanwhile, Mr Lincoln, informed either through the newspapers or by the direct agency of the legal advisers of Gen. Dix that the genera! had been arres.ed by civic prcess, wrote to him not to suffer, " under any circumstances," his personal liberty to be in vaded, and to plead the orders of the Commander in•Chief as his justification for what he had done. In other words, Mr Lincoln has asmemed the responsibility, and has dared Governor Sey mour, who is as legally and constitutionally the executive and cnief magistrate of the State of New York as Mr Lincoln is the chief magistrate of the Union, to try conclusions with him on the great and vital question, whether is a city not in a state of siege the military or the civil law is supreme. It seems as if Governor Seymour, aware of the impor tance of the issue, had determined to meet it, and, in view of the possibility of a conflict bet wet-a the Federal troops and the Sheriffs and other officers of the law, has ordered the militia of the State to be raised to the quota of 75,000 men, by a draught, pursuant to the State law for the organisation of the National Guard. He has at the same time di rected that no further steps shall be taken towards enrolling, equipping, and despatching the 12,000 men which Mr Lincoln has called upon him to supply for the defence of 'Washington and Mary. land. Thus the state of affairs is eminently critical. Gen. Dix has a noble chance, such a one as rarely falls to the lot of an American politician. He is a member of the Democratic party, accomplished, gentlemanly, popular. His party—not quite agreed upon Gen. M'Clellan, and having no other in view —s in want of a candidate to rah against Mr Lin coln. Gen. Dix has but to declare that when the military and the civil law come into collision he is for the civil law—to plead is the matter of the World and the Journal of Commerce that he obeyed the order of his superior officer, but rather than incur any future risk of becoming a bad citizen by acting as a goo d so ldi er h e h as res i gne d hi s position in the army, and he will (supposing always that Grant's c am p a i gn i s really at an end, an d t h a t no military successes o f any i mportance are gained by him or any ono else between this and Nov. 8) he hailed with acclamation as the candidate or the great and growing party who prefer liberty to the Union, and the most formidable competitor that could be run against Mr Lincoln. Governor Sey. moue has hitherto been braver in speech than in action. In the case of the World and Journal of Commerce he is so clearly in the -right and Mr Lincoln is so clearly in the wrong that the friends of State Rights believe ho has at last mustered up courage to make a stand. He has done it in a way that has t - ,s numb of f ended and surprised the advocates of centra.iz .ti on and arbitrary power as it has gratified the b itheoto timid but numerous :lass who think clomiriion too dearly purchased at he price of conslitot'tonal freedom, and who only want a leader o. aelr.nowledged ability and boldness o become the dot ninatit party. A short time will ,now whether Got , ernor Seymour will maintain the nigh pontiou he h ns assumed, whether General Dix DENMARK AND GERMANY. (From the Special Correspondent of the 7imes.) ELSINORE, Jaiy 17. There is news in circulation here this evening about an armistice being concluded between the bel ligerent Powers u) to the end of the present month. Likewise, it is sail, that the preliminaries of peace have been agreed'upon, thanks to the good offices end friendly mediation of the Emperor of the French. The Dates, we are given to understand, consent to raise the blockade by sea ; but we do not hear either that the Germans are :o withdraw from Jutland, or that ttey are even to give up the " civil administration "—g. C., spoliation and oppression of that luckless province. After the fail of Alf., be it remembered, we had already a most perfect de facto armistice ; the new agreement, if the intelligence is confirmed, will impose upon Denmark far harder terms than were allowed to her during the negoti ations of the London Conference. Germany has for the present the game in her own hand. The Schleswig•Holstein difficulty has ceased to be either a Danish or an European question ; but it his become essentially and formidably Gelman. Very great exertions are made by the agents of M. Bismark in the Duchies, with a view to bring a de claration of popular suffrage in favour of annexation to Prussia. Strong 'nettle •are addressed to some of the most advanced and most influential leaders of the Danish party Sen.e6wig,ano chiefly in Flensburg , to represent to then, what is, indeed, too true , that the Duchies are nreparably and for ever lost to Denmark , and to impress them with the no`ion that, under such circumstances, it is for the interest no less than for the honour of the Schleswig-Hol steiners, rather to belo ng to a great compact mon archy like Prussia, Which can hardly fail within a very short period to extend its sway over a ll Ger many, than to set up an Augusten burg or an Oiden barg of their own—a beggarly Kinglet, whose very the supremacy of some o f th e great Powers. The ex i s t e nce c )uld onl Pruqeian Mz.phistoPheles has no great hesitation in y be insured by his subm ission to showing the cloven trot. Rated by hi s p ortentous political no less than military success, he throws our clear hints of his inte n ti ons both to snub the Frank . fort Diet and to crush the National party, so as Equally to ground i's imperial sway on the annihi lation of the revolution, and t h e subjugation of the minor States. Prussi a holds, for the m oment, "the sword by the hilt," and there is n obod y to dis p ute her will throughout Germany, either i n the fie ld or the Cabinet; nob o d y w i t h the exception of her ancient rival Austria, who, moreover, can be always held in check by France, whenever Prussia may deem it necessary t o p ro pitiate the latter p owe r by the tempting b a i t o f t hat "mere slip of territory on All this the valley t calculation 'i f a: the Sarre." five month s ago, may still find that she has too far p resumed on her is, however, very high p la y , and Prussia easily to b e got up in the Duchie s. It was not eas y chances. A Pruss ian p art y is no t be f ore the spiked helmets had shown themselves to the north o f the Elbe and the Eider ; it i s f ar l ees eas y now, since Schleswig-Hol steiners h ave had oppor tunities to appreciate the regime of th e Pruss i an Commissioners. Whether of Schleswig-Holsteiners, perhaps we may sy mpath i ze w ith them or not, we cannot deny that a l arge p a rty merely out of regard for their engagement and the sacredness of their word, continue staunch to the c ause of Augus tenburg. The cannon and the equal of at Gto bayonet a l one will have power to Prussianize them ; and M. vo n Bi smar k may best know to what extent he may v e nt ure upon imposing himself by main force upon th e D uc hies, viz., to what extent he may t . :l be e r of treading out the last e r t u h i c a n tanational aspirations, both in those Duchi ed and throughout the extent of Vaterland. . . In the interests seem natural t o wish o f peace and order, in the inte rests of n —erman ty the strong-minded Berlin u nity itself, it would , no d ou , s t atesman a happy fulfilment of his dark and daring Palley- M. van Bismark, to give him his due, seems to be the only twi n in Germany well aware of what he is driving a t, lie is a man of absolute tenden eics, overbearing, unscrupulous ; but there is only one instance in Europe of a nation being brought. tevber by a n y other agency than the strong wil; of an unsparing, unprincipled despot. May be, M. von Bismark is destined to be the LouiA XL or Henry VII. of Germany ; destined, that is to say, to tread down all discordant elements of the Princes and people of the Confederacy, as those monarchs levelled with the ground all the inequalities of old French and ilogiisn feadalism. Germany, as she is now, is cers tainly an anomaly and an anachronism in Europe, and the end of so absurd a state of things must needs be brought about either by a tyrant or by a mob. Were Bismark to fail, German convulsions may perhaps take as much space in the annals of the latter part of the 19th century as French com motions occupied in the historical page of the close of the 18th. As to what concerns Denmark, there seems to be little doubt that M. von Bismark is the only man trdm whom she may expect endurable terms. In the great task that the Prime Minister of K:ng William has taken upon himself, no man can aid him so afielently as King Christian IX. It was less to the dynasty or to the State of Denmark that Prussia declared war than to what is gene rally called the " Copenhage❑ mob." Democracy has shown but little tact, understanding, or gene rosity in these Northern climates ; it is for the interest of Denmark, no less than of Germany, that it should be put down. Upon terms of a cordial co-operation in this reactionary work, the Danish Government may obtain an advantageous peace, and on no other conditions. There is reason to be lieve that the new advisers of the Crown here are aware of the real bearing of the situatiow, and pre pared to act accordingly. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE, RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday the committee of the House of Lords con cluded its inquiry into the bill for the Metropolitan (Trinity square Extension), and passed it. The bills passed in other committees, after a formal inquiry, were those for the Lon don, Brighton, and South Coast (additional powers); Neath and Brecon Extension; South Eastern (No. 4 Bill) ; and South Wales Mineral Railway. The Piers and Harbours Confirmation Bill was considered in the Earl of Devon's committee, the case being stated by Mr Mundell. MANCHESTER. SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLN, SHIRE The report of the directors stateethat the acoounts for the past half year show a total revenue from all sources of £379,519, a total expenditure of £171,170, and a balance of net profit of £208,348, which, with the balance of £5,483 from the previous half year, gives a total sum of £213,832 available for interest and dividend. The debenture and other interest charge dile against the revenue of the half year amounts to £59,826, the canal annuities to £14,143, and the dividends on the various classes of preference stock and shares to £81,713, making a total charge of £158,682, leaving a balance of £55,150, out of which the directors re commend that a dividend be paid at the rate of 2/ per cent. per annum on the ordinary stock of the company. leaving a balance of £1,249. The traffic receipts for the half year amounted to £334,538, for the corresponding half of 1863 to £.::82,428, showing an increase of £52,110. The local traffic amounted to £173,021, and the foreign traffic to £161,517. The Grimsby Dock dues and wharfage amounted to £3,279 for the past half year against £3,456 for the corresponding halt of 1863, showing a decrease of £177. The quantity of coal shipped at Grimsby was 62,639 against 65,747, showing a decrease of 3,108 tons. The falling off in the shipment of coal during the half year is attri , . butable to the lockout of the collieries in the South Yorkshire district. The company's share of the net profits of the South Junction Railway amounts to £9,353 against £8,184, showing an increase of £1,z.09, The revenue of the canals shows an increase of net profit of £3,464 as compared with the corresponding period of last year. Tee working expenses amounted to £.56,451 against £152,359, sh,wing an increase of £40,902. The act for leasing the undertaking of the Si,uth Yorkshire Company received the Royal assent on the 23d June, and the working of the rail way and canals has been consolidated with that of this com pany since the Ist inst. During 14 weeks of the half-year 11 cut of 18 of the colliers on the South Yorkshire Railwey have been locked out, and a much less amount of coal traffic has in consequence been carried; but, notwithstanding these disturbing causes, the traffic for the half year shows an increase of nearly £5,000 over the corresponding period last year. The expenditure on capital account during the half year amounts to £212,258, of which £81,923 is for sub scriptions to other companies, £67,999 for works and sta tions, and £53,575 for new rolling stock, The Gersten and Liverpool lino was opened on the Ist of June for public traffic. The total expenditure on capital account to the 30th of June amounted to £10,427,272, leaving a balance of £23,570. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.—LEwEs, July 21, CROWN SIDE. (Before (Mr Baron Martin.) THE ENTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF ARSON. Mrs Margaret Grant, a iady.fike looking person, very handsomely dressed, and stated in the calendar to be 39 years of age, the widow of Major Grant, late paymaster to the Gist regiment, who was kilned at Delhi during the Indian mutiny, surrendered to take her trial upon an in dictment for felony, the offence alleged against her being That she did feloniously and maliciously set fire to a dwel ling house in her occupation, with intent to injure and defraud the owner of the premises. The Hon. G. Denman, Q.C., was specially retained, with Mr Roupel!, to conduct the prosecution. Sergeant Ballan tine, Sergeant Parry, and Sir G. Honeyman, were specially retained on behalf of the prisoner. Sergeant Ballantine, when the case was called on, made an application to the court for the postponement of the trial to the next assizes. He did so upon an affidavit made by Mr Teesdale, of the firm of Maples, Teesdale, and Co., solicitors for Mrs Grant, which stated that certain officers belonging to her Majesty's 61st Regt., to which the husband of Mrs Grant was in his lifetime paymaster, were essential and necessary witnesses for the defence, to prove the cir cumstances in which the prisoner was left at the death of her husband, and also to speak to her eharac , er, and that as the regiment had been ordered for Ireland, it was im possible to procure the attendance of these officers at the present assizes. Upon this ground the learned counsel ap pealed to the court to postpone the trial. Baron Martin said he was unwilling to postpone any trial unless good and sufficient cause was shown for doing so, and in the present case it appeared to him that evidence of the kind alluded to by the learned sergeant would not be ad- missible or relevant upon such a charge as arson, and that the character, or at all events the circumstances, of the pri soner had nothing whatever to do with such a charge. the absence of witnesses to speak on th(se matters, it appeared to him, therefore, was no ground for a postponement of the trial. Sergeant Ballantine said he should venture to suggest that, with reference to one of the counts of the indictment imputing to the prisoner an intention to obtain money by the act imputed to her, it was most important and essential to show she was possessed of ample means, and had con siderable property, and that it wss therefore very improbaole that she should have been actuated by any such motive as that imputed to her. He would remind his lordship that in ordinary cases of this description, it was the common course to bring forward evidence that the party accused was under pressure, and in debt, as a reason why it was likely that he should endeavour to obtain money by the commission of such an offence, and it appeared to him to be open to a pri soner to show that no such state of things existed, and that evidence of this description was most material in a charge of this kind. Baron Martin said he was still of opinion that evidence of the character alluded to could not be received, but he should be glad to hear what Mr Denman had to say in re ference to the application for a postponement. Mr Denman said that he and his learned friend were in structed to prosecute by the authorities of the town of Brighton, and the only object they had in view was that a full inquiry, and such a one as would be likely to be satisfac tory to the public, should take place. Under these circum stances, and a representation being made that witnesses were absent whose evidence would be material on behalf of the prisoner, he did not feel himself called upon to resist the application, and he should leave the matter entirely in the hands of his lordship. Baron Martin then said that he would allow the trial to be postponed, but he wished it to be understood that he would not have consented to the postponement if the counsel for the prosecution had not agreed to such a course being adopted. His lordship then inquired into the present amount of the recognisances into which the prisoner had entered fL r her appearance to take her trial ? Mr Avery, the officer of the court, informed him that the present recognisances of the prisoner were—herself in £5OO with two securities in £250 each. - Baron Martin said that the prisoner would be again ad• mitted to bail, lout he thought the recognisances ought to be increased, and that she herself should enter into a re cognisance in the sun/ of £l,OOO and find two sureties in £5OO each. In the course of the morning the required sureties were entered into, and the prisoner was then discharged from custody, and left the court accompanied by her daughter, an elegantly dressed young lady, and several of her friends. A prisoner named Job Snook alias James Macey, was then placed at the bar to receive judgment. lie had pleaded guilty to a charge of feloniously setting fire to a stack, and it appeared that he had bean previously co nvicted of a similar offence, and sentence d to penal servitude. When ho was brought into the dock, the pri soner conducted himself in the most violent and outrageous mann , r. Ho raved like a madman, and shrieked out, "Why don't you hang me—hang me at once—l want to be hanged—you can't do worse to me than you have done ;" and it required all the exertions of two of the county cou ,tabulary and a warder belonging to the gaol to hold him in the dock. Mr. Liuton, the governor of Petworth gaol, stated to the Court that the prisoner had been perfectly quiet down to he present time, and that he had no doubt that his present fit of violence was entirely assumed. Baron Martin said he was of the same opinion, and he . then addressed the prisoner, and said that he had pleaded guilty to a very serious offence, that of wilfully setting fire to and destroying the property of a man who had never done him an injury, and that he had been solely actuated by a feelhg of revenge and malice against all the world. He found that in addition to this he had, while in the army, been p ,nished no less than a dozn times for different acts of insubordination, and that he had been at length dis charged as a worthless character, and that since this he had been also convicted of the crime of arson. He felt it his duty, under these circumstances, to order him to be kept in pencil servitude for the space of ten years. The moment the sentence was pronounced the prisoner appeared to become almost frantic with rage. He kicked and bit at the officers, who were endeavouring to restrain him, and yelled out, " I have been flogged a dozen times, you can only flog me to death. I want to be hung ; hang me at once." With great difficulty he was carried to the cells below, where it appeared that he tore off the whole of his clothes, and it was found necessary to handcuff his hands behind him, to prevent him from doing further mischief. This concluded the criminal business. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, TIMES,—It would seem as if India and the Colo nies had in the last few years changed places with each other. For a long time the whole attention of those who feel it their duty to object to little wars and nip the germs of future expenditure in the bud was directed almost exclusively to India. That fer tile soil produced with truly tropical fecundity a rich undergrowth of troubles of all, sorts, a jungle in which every 111inister was sure to be more or less entangled, while a succession of deficits excited no unreasonable alarm for the future destinies of the empire. On the other hand, deep sleep and imper turbable tranquillity seemed to have descended on the placid realm over which the Secretary for the Colonies presided. From the end of the last Cape war to the Beginning of the troub:es in New &A land, the Colonies had enjoyed uninterrupted repose. Now, however, the Maori war and the Ashen tee war, and possibly another Lat. war, sorely try the temper of the British Legislature ; while there is no point of the horizon where the weather is so tair as Indies. The annual statement of the Indian Budget last night, which seems to be cuunected indissolubly with the introduction of the Appropriation Bill, presents a gratifying picture of progress, economy, and improvement. Whichever way we turn we meet with the roost convincing proofs that we have at last nit upon a plan which is destined to develop , to the utmost the industrial capacities of India, and to preserve the wealth which she creates for the purposes of r• production. Within the last five years India has exchanged a neficit of fourtee❑ millions for a surplus of several hundred thousand pounds, and that in spite of a deficiency i❑ the article of opium alone of no less than .E 1,600,000. The Income Tax is, indeed, a failure. The Indian trader is not proof against the temptation which the virtue of the English trader has not been alto gether able to resist, and it is announced that the tax is to be abolished as a part of the general revenue, and only retained for the purposes of local taxation. The Government salt monopoly in Bengal has also been abolished ; but the result does not seem to be that the natives avail themselves of those boundless supplies of salt which they were said to possess hat u.ther to throw the whole trade, so far as the Presidency of Bengal is concerned, into the hands of the Cheshire salt manufacturers. An immense duty is imposed o❑ imported salt without exciting the slightest domestic compe'ition. A cry is very notorally raised for the reduction of this tax, and it certain t y does seem very hard to burden one of the first necessaries of life with so enormous an impost. On the other hand, the water-drinking, rice-eating coolie is very apt to escape from taxation altogether. unless it is levied either on the salt which is neces . sary for his health, or on the Manchester piece goods which , supply his scanty clothing. We have succeeded in greatly raising the condition of the Indian poor; we have uhtainerl for them money, but we have not been able to teach them how to spend it. Tney are still lamentably deficient in that first distirc•ion of advancing civilisation, the innumer able and complicated wants of the European. They will not drink tea, nor use sugar, nor wine, nor tobacco, and co our best excuse for continuing the enormous salt duty is that, unless we tax salt, they would attain an absolute immunity from taxation. \lean while the land revenue, the,..great reliance of Indian finance, is increasing in the way we would have it increase, not by the raising of the assessment, but by the greater breadth of land which is brought into cultivation. The measures for decentralising the Legislature of India by the establishment of minor Councils in the three Presidencies, and the admission of natives to the Council of the Governor. General, have fully answered expectation. The Legislatures have made useful laws, and the natives have shown not only ability—which they were sure to do—but self-confidence and independence, which were by no means so certain. in the Courts of Jas tice barristers and civilians work together with the best results, the barristers teaching the civilians law, and the civilians giving the barristers information as to the manners, customs, and local peculiarities of the natives. The two codes of procedure—. civil and criminal—have got rid of arrears and reduced the length of causes from an average of three months to an average of eight days. The first of the codes is formed on the principle of examining the parties before the judge instead of making use of written pleadings. The second has abolished an indictment, and substituted for it the name of the crime charged, and a reference to the article of the code by which it is forbidden and punished. No doubt the great prosperity in India, and the rise in the price of labour and other commodities are due mainiy to that rise in the price of cotton of which Sir Chas. Wood somewhat ungratefully complains for having raised the price of food and injured the prosperity of native manufactures. These are small matters when compared with the immense influx of capital and diffusion of comfort among the lower class of the community which have arisen so sud denly from the creation of this new and lucritive m arket. Whatever be the injuries that the Ame ricen civil war has done to Lancashire it has unques tionably regenerated India, but this process would not have been so sudden nor so complete had not a wise and provident Government prepared the way for this new burst of prosperity by piercing the vest interior with railroads, by putting the finances in order, and by employing persons able not only to adapt English institutions to Indian use, but to in vent new principles to meet Indian wants when the principles already known seemed not to be fit for the purpose. The picture of foreign policy in India is as gratifying as that of domestic improvement. We have at lest learnt in India that indifference which we are endeavouring to learn in Europe. Three sons of Des*, Mohammed Khan are fighting for the possession of the Affghan throne, and we in former times should have had our favourite and our enemy, and b. en busy with intrigues to support the one and supplant the other. As it is we look on with perfect indifference at the unnatural conflict, ready to enter into friendly relations with the conqueror, and to give the conquered, if he escape thesword or bowstring, an asylum within our dominions. Surely this is better than the costly folly of 25 years since. We have unintentionally excited the jealousy of one Hill Tribe while chastising another, and suf fered severely in consequence, white in the wild and mountainous region of Bhootan our Envoy has been insulted and our complaints scornfully rejected. Time was when this would have led to a war, but now we content ourselves with occupyingthe passes by which Bhootan is connected with the rest of the world, and trust to this kind of land blockade to bring our refractory neighbours to reason. Such is the outline of the Indian Budget. Its statements are not only gratifying in themselves inasmuch as they tell of peace and prosperity, but also from the promise they give that our Government will be conducted on principles Which render that pros perity durable. HERALD.—The Bill for the Relief of the Casual Poor, just brought into the House of Commons by Mr. Villiers and Mr. Gilpin, as a . Goverment mea sure, suggests a remedy for the crying abuses of' the present system which , though right in principle,is defective in its deta ils. It is but common justice that the eastern metropolitan districts should be freed from the but den under which they labour, from being impelled to relieve the vagrants of other districts, as we ll as the resident poor of their own ; and the only means by which the undue pressure on them could be alleviated is by the plan we suggested in a former article on the subject—a rate in aid— whether derived f rom a trifling tax, levied on those who are able to take public amusements, to which admission is paid for, or by a general tax on ail classes, those who cannot afford indulgence in pub lic amusements as well us those who can. For our selves we should prefer the French method of obtain ing the necessary revenue; first, because it would be levied from persons who could afford to pay ; and next. because it could be collected without difficulty and would be wiliingly paid by those called upon to contribute to it. Tne demand of an extra six pence for the entrance to a theatre of his family of six wrens would never bo reSist ed by Pater families, when he refl ec t e d that his ow n and his chi'dren'a amusement might contribute, even in a small degree, to alleviate the s ufferings of the homeless and forlorn. A tax of some descrip tion is absolutely nece ssary, and therefore the measure prorosed must be gratefu ll y accepted in lieu of a better one ; but when we come to examine the manner in which the money raised is . to be appro priated we conceive that the mode of its applicratten is altogether objectionable. One . of the greatest and best founded objections against the . present method of relieving the casual poor is, that it affords no check on what may be termed perpetual veg raucy ; and that, besides svpporting thobe who really require assistance, from unexpected or unmerited adversity, the different unions are compelled to main tain a body of the worst description of miscreants, who, taking advantage of the asylums afforded thrte, make a regular round of visits to each, returning at night, most frequently, to those in which they re ceive the best treatment, while passing their days in the streets, lounging about in idleness or °cal pied in the commission of crime- It is clear that this class of persons should be diminished or got rid of, either by forcibly sending them to their owli parishes, if in the country, or by keeping them ill the workhouses of their own unions should they be chargeable in the metrvelitan districts. The terror of restraint and the certainty of being obliged to labour fiat their subsistence might deter them froth having recourse to casual relief, and drive them t ° seek some honest employment by which they could win a livelihood ; but the plan proposed by th e Government measure for defraying the expenses of their support is one very likely to increase instead of diminishing the evil of systematically practised Or rancy. Censured as they have hitherto been tot their harshness of manner and cruel rejection et applicants, with the object of lessening the rate e l their districts, the poor law officials will most likely err in the opposite extreme, and be but too liberal, in the hope of acquiring popularity at the e xpense of others. Admissions will be obtained with le es difficulty and on a larger scale. The dietary Wi ll be of a more liberal description, and this laxity of admission and increase of comfort will give a new impetus to the demand for both, and 00 doubt largely augment the numbers of a class fro o which society in general suffers. The " trar ft e lY r taking his rounds as usual, and returning a e what he calculates a reasonable interval, will again present himself and be again received by t he m asters, who may take a malicious pleasure I°, thus teaching the public the cost of unli miteu benevolence. To this source of additional exp ense must be added the certainty of a considerab le additional outlay, in the employment of as extra, staff of clerks at head-quarters, and the increase c' officers at the workhouse, or augmented allow ance° to those already there, as compensation for the additional labour imposed upon them in keeping, complicated and difficult accounts. By the bill now published no power is given to the officers of the unions to detain the habitual claimants fo r casual relief, either for the purposes of sending tnem home or compelling them to remain in the houses; and so they will be obliged to dismiss see !eave them at liberty to betake themselves else' where. On a former occasion we ventured to sag' gest that casual relief should only be administered in separate establishments — say, one for men sr another for women, or more if necessary, in dig s ; rent parts of the metropolis. This would pr evail " the possibility of the habitual vagrant's c a rryil on his present rotatory system, because he could obtain admission nowhere else; and it would e ns" the authorities to detect imposition, and to comP e, those walking spectres who shock foreigners in ou t streets, to betake themselves to the houses t he y have a right to enter, instead of trading on t ° compassion of persons ignorant of their devices `", excite sympathy or their unwillingness to ac eeP ' the public support to which the law entitles the lp ; The method of relieving casual distress which thew propose would be less expensive thee that ft; bodied in the Government measure ; it would less complicated in its details, and more efficacie°: in diminishing, if it did not altogether eradie'st`: the evil of permanent vagrancy in London. 110 06° . c suitable for its purposes could easily be found 'l3 low rents in the districts where they won d most required ; and we trust that its advantafq,l may not be lost sight of as the Ministerial dl ' passes through the house. COUNTRY MARKETS. MANCHE STER—TEunsDAY. A fair attendance at our market to-day, but the Win e° , passing was moderate English wheat brought the (1, tre me rates of this day se'nnight, and for foreign en l'ts vane@ of Id to 2d per cental was realised. Favourit e ra of tresb-made flour 6d per sack dearer, and other sorts fir'ilo Oats and oatmeal both in favour of sellers. English betto again advanced is per qr. Indian corn and Egyptian saleable at 6d per qr more money. BURTON. ON-TRENT—THURSDAY. 0 A small show of grain at our market, and we Q uot e advance of 6d to is on wheat. Barley rather dull. "'""cl other articles unaltered. 3 7 s to 4 4 6 °: Old white wheat..42s to 46s I Old red_wheat, New do. .. 44s to 48s I New do. 3BB t t° 29i Malting barley....32s to 35s I Oats. 2la o 3, Grinding d0.....26s to 30s I Beans 348 t° 4 BIRMINGHAM—THURSDAY. t O t There was a rather short supply of English scliftiber. market to-day, and last week's prices were is to 2s hig er , Barley and oats each 6d, bans and peas is per qr ded6`s. —English wheat was sold at 43s to 475 for white, I l 'to to 45s per 36 stone for red. Barley, new malting, 300300 38s per qr ; grinding, 24s to 26s Oats, old, 228 to „ r , per 30 stone ; Irish, 20s to 245. Beans, 38s to 408 pe r Peas, 31s to 38s per 36 stone. BRISTOL—THURSDAY. Our market was thinly attended by farmers and deelq t l i; The show of English wheat was moderate, which m et a slow demand at former rates. Foreign quiet. A P re d lair business doing in barley. Oats in limited shoal, 66" 6d higher. Beans and peas each Hilly is per qr dearer* EDINBURGH GRAIN—JULY 20. u; sol d To. day there was a fair supply of grain, which at shoat last week's prices. Wheat on the top 3s Od up... average Os 2cl 11 1 3 . Barley on the top Os 3d down .average Os 3d do;;-. Oats on the top Os 2d up . average Os 5d 41° Beans on the top 2s Od up.... average 2s lid up' Ayetage Prices. 5 3 Wheat.. 42s 7d I Oats. ...... 2 4 ; 0 Barley 3os Id Beans - '- - 1 Total Supply and Sales. Wheat .. 1 -,:64 qrs Sold 1141 qrs Barley... BB qrs Sold t,B qrs Oats Beans 79 qrs Sold 79 qrs Foreign. Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton .. O. via Marseilles .Aug' 4. Jrazil and Cape Verds, by British packet Aug; 0. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena... l ' ll J China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southamptou.A9 6 ,,%S. via Marseilles J ill. ' Falkland Islands .. Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via SouthamPiCa;..A ltitil ,tls ., via Marseilles...•A l '' ~6 India (Bombay), via Southampton ............ Ju l Y f2l. J tilY 4, via Marseilles Portugal.... ...... .. m Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southap . ;o . i . A ............ J A ; I , " g) :: ‘2 2 6 1. via Marseilles ........ 011 3 Aug. Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo ............. :J u ly 2 8 ' U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.. • by U.S. packet ..• • .....1, 22. by Canadian packet.JUl , n All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, I joy California. California. and British Columbia.. A- 11 5 THE IMPERIAL LIBRARY AND THE POLYTEC III4i ; ScrtooL.—The French Emperor has signed a doo r° ' fi .s which the whole Imperial Library is to be reorganis ed ' t he the same time he is busy with a pr o ject for transferr ing t Polytechnic schools to Versailles. [ADVERTISEMENT ]—Holloway's Ointment and Pine Never neglect a Cold.—lt is painful to hear of the —OlO, fatal cases which commenced with the ordinary 09133 % of a common cold. Holloway's ointment rubbed 111 3° it back and chest prevents all disastrous consequence;tter soothes the inflamed lining of both throat and chest; w its' rubbing in the ointment for a few days , the pectoral 10003 tion and the tightness of breathing diminish, the oev, b eco mes looser and less frequent, and the phlegm is ee„ t o rated with less difficulty, till the lungs become , respi ra tion natural. All subject to take cold frog' ;70'1 exposure to varying temperatures, will find 1:1 011 ,.! at oP soo thing ointment and purify ,ng pills an effective sal'b againsi pleurisy, bronchitis, asthma, and consun3Pti°/..2.,,,/..." Births. SAVILLE.—On the 20th inst., at Foulmire Rector/it:lop Royston, the Hon. Mrs. Arthur Saville, of a dalig "V it t' WETHERA.LL.—On the 19 h inst., at Lodding t°ll l ,:te tharnptonshire, the wife of Captain T. Wetheratio '- Dragoons, of a daughter. matt i° WROTTESLEY.—On the 20th inst., at Wilton-crefle— lion. Mrs. Wrottesley, of a son. Marriages. ot os, HILL—NVA.TsoN—n the 20th insof t. Worcester, at All Saint g C li 3l ,oce! L e amington , Hilar O y Hill, .E.q to Eli za , second daughter of F. V. Watson, Esq ,9l3' House. Leamington. g P A RR—DOWNIE — Oa the 19 th inst. at St. fto t i toe , Thomas Roworth Parr, Lieu. Rifle Dr i b,i; Mary Bridget, daughter of the late Sir Ale 011"" Downie. Deaths. fit OP I ) (3 . A 121 ; , dEriv:Toi. n —On e . o —On Modena-terrace, rh, t r h eEa e clse 2 q7, o t. hp : h ins t . , Abraham A r Iceb ° a e g e in ‘ e s a ll t a . 6 7 o :at Havercroft, ~ .° I. , O. JENKIN.—On the 20th inst., Mr. Charles LeWi 4 J ellt‘ill' , 51, Lime-street, city, aged 63. KNIGHT.—On the 15th inst., at Ealing, George ."' T roigl i " Esq., aged 63 itilP °ll GREENLAW.—On the 25th April, killed in the asean ~ die Chang 'Chow, China, Richard Greenlaw, Lie u , t ' t fte irl Anglo-Chinese Contingent, and only son of trie d ',;9, It. B. Greenlaw, rector of Bradwell, Essex, fat - 1 611 0 VICKERS.—On the 20th inst., at 1, Parlt.Plf ie n e r opag tr. Atiida-vale, W., Joseph Vickers, Esq , late of v c) " of market Distillery, aged 85. . WOOD.—On the 18th inst., Alexander Wood , ,f 8 ,1::1 0 \Voodoo , e ' formerly ono of the Judge s of the 014 Courts of Scotland. ltt ;SC. London: Prinzed and Prinished by WILLIAIII.6 Ta - /0 ,1 ot No. 112, Strand, Printer , at I. IIE SUN Ofnce ot tl g t he CO Strand, , n th.• Precinct o t the 34,0 y. •Et Igitlilesex.7-Frid4y, July 22, Mt